Woman Arrested After Video Of Alleged 'Racist Rant' Posted On YouTube

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence after a video emerged of an allegedly ‘racist’ rant on a London bus.

The Met police detained a 34-year-old at an address in Hackney on Tuesday, after a clip featuring a woman swaying and shouting ‘I hate white people’ was viewed thousands of times on YouTube.

A police spokesman said: "On Monday 20 August MPS officers began to assess footage of a woman that was brought to our attention.

"It shows a woman making comments on a bus. Officers are continuing to try and establish when and where the footage was taken."

The definition of a public order offence is wide ranging and includes being drunk and disorderly, but in this case, the behaviour likely to be categorised as “using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour intending to and causing harassment, alarm or distress.”